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Club Location - Kingaroy Queensland
We are 3 Klms South of Kingaroy on Goodger Road Near the Airport - Please call one of our Committee Members for more information. Our club shoots competition on the first Sunday of the month. See the program page for more details. Visitors are most welcome. We have five DTL layouts using Canterbury Traps and Voice Release.
2007 - 2008 Committee President Steve Kelly 0428 242299 Vice President Col Otto 07 4162 3582
Shoot Marshall Mal Rankin Handicapper Steve Kelly Office Manager Col Otto Ground Person Max Behm Providore Scott Prendergast Trap Mechanic Max Behm Auditors Burnett Business Centre Pty Ltd Clubhouse Phone 07 4162 5296 Mail address - PO Box 276 Kingaroy 4610
Kingaroy Shire was first settled by Europeans in 1843 when squatter and explorer Henry Stuart Russell made a selection at Burrandowan west of present-day Kingaroy. He was followed into the area in 1846 by the haly brothers (who selected Taabinga station) and Simon Scott (who settled at Taromeo). The Halys and Scott brought the first flocks of sheep to the region - an industry that was soon overtaken by dairying, sawmilling and grain cropping. In 1878 or 1879, the general area where Kingaroy now stands was selected by the Markwell brothers.
James Markwell called his selection Kingaroy Paddock using a corruption of the local Wakka Wakka aboriginal people's word for "red ant" (Kingaroori) because red ants were so prevalent in the area. A corner post of his selection was located on what is now modern-day Haly Street in central Kingaroy. The Birth of Kingaroy The new railway line arrived in Kingaroy in 1904 and Daniel Carroll built the Carrollee Hotel that same year to service the railhead, This hotel is still trading today. A store, four more hotels and a large number of houses followed over the next few years and Kingaroy soon began to grow in earnest. But as the new township expanded around the fountain of prosperity that the railhead brought to the district Taabinga Village slowly went into irreversible decline. In 1907 Taabinga had two hotels, a fancy goods store, a butcher, post office, a photographer and a sawmill. But by 1910 records show that blocks of land in Taabinga Village were being forfeited and demand for property was practically nil. The decimation of Australian rural populations caused by World War I proved to be the final blow to the village. Taabinga Homestead and a few buildings were converted to a wonderful restaurant and craft shop.
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Treasurer
Robert Horn 07 4162 5552
